Paru won't detect AUR updates with LocalRepo

[wkennington]

Affected Version

paru v2.1.0 - libalpm v16.0.1

Description

New package versions in the AUR are available, but paru is not looking for them because they are already installed in the local aur repo.

Output

~> ~/paru -Syu
:: Looking for PKGBUILD upgrades...
:: Looking for AUR upgrades...
:: Resolving dependencies...
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...
 there is nothing to do
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core
 extra
 multilib
 aur
 aur is up to date extra is up to date multilib is up to date core is up to date:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
~> ~/paru -Syu --nolocalrepo
:: Looking for PKGBUILD upgrades...
:: Looking for AUR upgrades...
5 aur/immich-cli               2.4.1-1  -> 2.5.0-1
4 aur/immich-machine-learning  2.4.1-1  -> 2.5.0-1
3 aur/immich-server            2.4.1-1  -> 2.5.0-1
2 aur/python-rapidocr          3.4.2-3  -> 3.6.0-1
1 aur/python-tokenizers        0.22.1-1 -> 0.22.2-1
:: Packages to exclude (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):

~> cat /etc/paru.conf
#
# $PARU_CONF
# /etc/paru.conf
# ~/.config/paru/paru.conf
#
# See the paru.conf(5) manpage for options

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
PgpFetch
#Devel
Provides
DevelSuffixes = -git -cvs -svn -bzr -darcs -always -hg -fossil
#AurOnly
#BottomUp
#RemoveMake
#SudoLoop
#UseAsk
#SaveChanges
#CombinedUpgrade
CleanAfter
UpgradeMenu
#NewsOnUpgrade

LocalRepo
Chroot
#Sign
#SignDb
KeepRepoCache

NoCheck

#
# Binary OPTIONS
#
[bin]
#FileManager = vifm
#MFlags = --skippgpcheck
#Sudo = doas
ChrootFlags = -U builder

~> cat /etc/pacman.conf | grep -v '^\(#\|$\)'
[options]
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
Architecture = auto
CheckSpace
ParallelDownloads = 16
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[options]
CacheDir = /var/lib/repo/aur
[aur]
SigLevel = PackageOptional DatabaseOptional
Server = file:///var/lib/repo/aur

[pfeifferj]

weird.. could you post the output of

paru -Si immich-cli
paru -Qi immich-cli 

[wkennington]

[builder@exodus ~]$ paru -Si immich-cli
Repository      : aur
Name            : immich-cli
Version         : 2.5.2-1
Description     : Self-hosted photos and videos backup tool
URL             : https://github.com/immich-app/immich
AUR URL         : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/immich-cli
Groups          : None
Licenses        : AGPL-3.0-only
Provides        : None
Depends On      : nodejs>=20
Make Deps       : git  pnpm  ts-node  mise
Check Deps      : None
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Maintainer      : aliu
Votes           : 20
Popularity      : 0.368325
First Submitted : Fri, 30 Dec 2022 03:41:46
Last Modified   : Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:58:06
Out Of Date     : No

[builder@exodus ~]$ paru -Qi immich-cli
Name            : immich-cli
Version         : 2.4.1-1
Description     : Self-hosted photos and videos backup tool
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://github.com/immich-app/immich
Licenses        : AGPL-3.0-only
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : nodejs>=20
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 2.74 MiB
Packager        : Unknown Packager
Build Date      : Wed 07 Jan 2026 11:05:48 PM PST
Install Date    : Wed 07 Jan 2026 11:09:19 PM PST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum

[pfeifferj]

linking this for visibility: #1530